I'm a diehard Sergio fan, I buy anything regarding behind the scenes or documentariesI can get.I can't say it's a good film. Nice interviews (excerpts are on the Italian SE DVD FOD, the red one with thelobby cards reprints and the nice book..) but it is not a real film. For that you need a concept, ideas,direction & some talent. Leone would deserve a definitve film, like the Kubrick doc, the filma Woody Allen lately or my film on Peckinpah maybe. One reason why I made my film was for instancethat up to then I had only seen interviews on Peckinpah, but no statements by him and nowbehind the scenes footage. As a result the man himself is represented in PASSION & POETRYquite alright I guess. In this Leone film (2 hours!) there is not one single Sergio Interview orrare appearance.. Just a few behind the scenes stills.

I can't say it's a good film. Nice interviews (excerpts are on the Italian SE DVD FOD, the red one with thelobby cards reprints and the nice book..) but it is not a real film. For that you need a concept, ideas,direction & some talent. Leone would deserve a definitve film, like the Kubrick doc, the filma Woody Allen lately or my film on Peckinpah maybe. One reason why I made my film was for instancethat up to then I had only seen interviews on Peckinpah, but no statements by him and nowbehind the scenes footage. As a result the man himself is represented in PASSION & POETRYquite alright I guess. In this Leone film (2 hours!) there not one single Sergio Interview orrare appearance.. Just a few behind the scenes stills.

So I just looked on the back cover of my Italian BD and its says right there under contenuti speciali "Sergio Leone. Cinema Cinema di Carles Prats". I think it's actually the complete version on there and I'm pretty sure I must have actually watched it at some point.

Alright... so they put some excerpts on the DVD and the whole show on BD...Back then I had no BD yet. And since I have one, I ONLY add BD's the my archive.Guess I'm becoming spoiled.

Sam vs. Serge ?They both were the (somehow) hippiest filmmakers in the 60s/70s andboth directed feature films from 1962 - 1983. Both died quite young andchanged cinema altogether.

Leone is my #2. Simply because his films were never as deep as Sam's.Although with GIU and OUATIA he progressed quite a bit. I watch Leone's filmsfor 35 years now and never get tired. Cinema, Super-8, 16mm, VHS, TV, LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-ray.I'm all for 'vision' and Sergio's vision was unique and exactly my cup of tea. But I also think that without Morricone and various other people he would not have becomethe cinema icon he became in the end. I hate Top 10 lists anyway. I rate Ford and Kubrickhigher than Sergio, but I don't watch their films every year. But Sergio's! So who's moreimportant to me?

That's like asking who was better, Tyson or Spinks. Dom Perignon or grape soda. Claudia Cardinale or Mara Krupp.

p.s. I went to FAFDM's IMDB page to look up the name of Mara Krupp, and she is described in the credits list as "Mary - Hotel Manager's Beautiful Wife." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059578/ Somebody there has a sense of humor. (Musta been the same guy who put Peckinpah and Leone in the same sentence.)

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